Baddegama

Baddegama — Plot

Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf. Silindu is a hunter in a small village where he and his family endure a life of hardships. After facing disease and poverty under colonial rule, the final blow comes when Silindu is tried for murder.

• Release date
• January 1, 1980
• Runtime
• 130 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Lester James Peries

Baddegama — Cast

Vijaya Kumaratunga Babun Malini Fonseka Punchi Menika Joe Abeywickrama Silindu Arthur C. Clarke Leonard Sidney Woolf Henry Jayasena Village Headsman Tony Ranasinghe Fernando

D

David Dharmakithri Mudalithana Trelicia Gunawardena Silindu's Sister